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Monday, December 21, 2020
Infected with crown mutation
Israeli gets infected again and dies
It is extremely rare for a person to contract the pathogen again after surviving corona infection. But that’s exactly what happened to a 74-year-old Israeli. The man did not survive the new disease.
In Israel, a person died for the first time after contracting the coronavirus for the second time. Schiba Hospital, near Tel Aviv, confirmed that the 74-year-old was infected with a mutated crown variant when he was recently diagnosed. Re-infection with the coronavirus is considered rare worldwide.
According to media reports, the man from Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, hired Corona for the first time in the summer. After a treatment in the hospital he recovered; several corona tests were negative at that time. About three months later, the retirement home resident became infected again. He was taken to Shiba Hospital with difficulty breathing and later died there.
Professor Galia Rahav, head of the infectious diseases department, told the ynet news site that the case was concerning. “If a person can become infected multiple times while the coronavirus is changing, what is the meaning of the vaccine?” The Israeli Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) have been informed of the case. Now he wants to investigate similar cases in Israel, Rahav said. “It is one of the cases in which it is clearly a reinfection and there is no doubt that the deceased made a full recovery from the initial infection.” There were two different variants of the corona virus.
Amid the spread of a new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus in the UK and other countries, Israel’s coronavirus cabinet met today, Monday, to deliberate on new entry restrictions.
